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| IDF kills five in Jenin |
| 2003-03-14 |
| A Palestinian attempting to throw a firebome was killed Friday evening after trying to flee from Israel Defense Forces troops in the West Bank village of Azun, next to Qalqilyah. Two other Palestinians were lightly wounded in the incident and arrested. The army said that troops opened fire after they say three Palestinians approaching in order to throw firebombs at vehicles on the road. One of the Palestinians tried to escape, fell, and according to the army, broke his neck and died. "Take that, Zionist oppressors! Whoops! Ow!" An Israeli man was lightly injured Friday from shots fired by a Palestinian gunman in a roadside ambush on the trans-Samaria highway, near the West Bank settlement of Adora, some 10 kilometers west of Hebron. The man was transferred to the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. A large number of troops is searching for the gunman, who was spotted fleeing in the direction of Hebron. "Mahmoud! I potted a Zionist!" "Hot damn, Ahmed! Run away! Run away!" Earlier Friday, IDF troops opened fire on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank used as a hide-out by Islamic Jihad militants, killing five Palestinians. "We broke into a house containing four wanted men, who were armed," Brigadier-General Gershon Yitzhak, a regimental commander, told Israel Radio. "The (Duvdevan unit commandos) beat them to the punch and shot them. An armed guard on the roof who threatened the force was also shot. In all, five terrorists were killed." Yitzhak said a sixth Palestinian gunman was shot while trying to flee the scene but it was unclear if he was killed. "Go fer yer guns, Mahmoud!" [Bang! Bang! Bangety bang!] "Avner! On the roof!" [Bang!] "Nice shootin', Avner!" The IDF said that the five, who were armed, were Hamas activists wanted by Israel and that one of the five was wearing an explosives belt at the time. "Careful, Moshe! I don't think he was really pregnant!" Backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, about 10 IDF tanks and armored personnel carriers moved into the camp at the northern edge of the West Bank after daybreak Friday and surrounded the house, Islamic Jihad officials said. Men inside the house fired at the soldiers. According to military sources, four of the men were killed inside the house, one was killed on the roof and another on the street. More than four weapons were seized during the operation, as well as IDF uniforms and badges. The militants had been standing watch over the camp throughout the night and had just returned to their hideout for breakfast and sleep when Israeli forces surrounded them, said a local Islamic Jihad leader, Sheik Bassam Saedi. "Drop the coffee pot and put yer hands up, Mahmoud!" In the Gaza Strip, the IDF arrested two armed Palestinians Friday on their way to carry out a terror attack near the Kissufim crossing. The men were carrying rifles and hand grenades and were wearing flak jackets. "That's a stunning flak jacket y'got there, Ahmed." "Y'like it? It was a birthday present from my Mom." Also Friday, IDF troops arrested 11 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |